I've tried installing ubuntu atleast 3 times and none have worked. I tried wubi but it failed to extract, I tried the burning to a dvd it would show the loading screen and then my monitor would shut off and wouldn't come back on. I tried the uniboot program and when i tried to load it just displayed DOS text stating that the kernel was tainted ( I'm not 100% on if thats what it stated. I really wanna try Ubuntu, could someone have some insight as to why this is happening? My hardware is: AMD anthlon 64 processor, 2 GB of RAM, Soundblaster Live! Audio Card and a Radeon 1650x video card.

There are shut things as a bad burn or the Linux distro didn't like your hardware. So do a reburn(from another source), even try out other Linux distros. By fiddling around like this. You will figure out what the problem was. http://distrowatch.com/